Industrialization
People moving from farms to cities...usually for jobs
Urbanization
Push factors
What are the name of organizations of workers?
unions
When a company buys out all of its competition it become a
Monopoly or trust
Which group of people came to America because of the potato famine?
the Irish
a way to mass produce items by having each person only do one job over and over again.
Assembly Line
The good events happening in another country that make an immigrant want to go there.
pull factors
This book dealt with the unsafe and unsanitary working conditions in the meat packing factories. What is the book's name.
The Jungle
This monopolist made all of his money in the steel industry. At the end of his life he gave almost all of it away to libraries and museums.
Andrew Carnegie
What is nativism?
Fear/hatred of immigrants
Before Industrialization, most Americans used to do what type of work?
agricultural, agrarian, farming
What region of the world were most immigrants from between 1880-1920 in America?
Southern & Eastern Europe
This man wrote the book that showed how the Other Half Lives, taking photos of immigrants living in unsafe conditions.
Jacob Riis
Monopolists believed that the market should set prices, not the government. What does it mean for the government to stay out of the business of companies.
laissez-faire
What is a fear of immigrants?
xenophobia or nativism
The term used to describe men that get rich off the backs of others and do not give back to their community
Robber Baron
After 1920 and unit 1960, where did most immigrants come from.
North & Western Europe
This progressive and president signed the Food & Drug Safety bill into law helping to make our food more safe.
Teddy Roosevelt
President Teddy Roosevelt is famous for breaking up companies who were monopolies. He believed all companies should be able to compete fairly. What is the name for breaking up a monopoly?
Trust Busting
quota
Henry Ford
Who did the Quota Act of 1924 discriminate against?
South & Eastern Europeans and Asians.
These are two safety items that were a direct result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire tragedy.
Fire escapes, sprinklers, doors that exit outwards, fire drills
What is the term for when unions come together and work with owners of companies to ask for better salaries and safety conditions.
collective bargaining
These people were known as reformers, trying to help make positive change in society
progressives